Rarity/Value of beautiful sea glass piece. Stopper?

by Brian W.
(California)

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1. Old Marble and Light Blue Glass Droplet

August 3, 2017

Greetings glass-hunters.

Last week I was surfing at one of my northern L.A. beaches. As I got out of the water, I noticed a shallow "V"-shaped pile of small stones near the water's edge. I'm at this beach a lot, but don't recall seeing the stones assembled that way. It may have been the large tidal swings that had happened the week before.

As I rinsed the sand off my board, I decided to take a quick look into the pile to see if I could find some cool sea-glass. As I did, I said to myself, "I don't know why, but I never find sea-glass here." Just as the thought rolled off of my cerebral cortex, I saw a little piece of round glass, aka a marble.

Chuckling to myself, I picked it up from amidst the thousands of stones just before the next wave surge would have taken it from view, probably forever. Ask me how I know.

I brought my board to my car and sent a phone image to my friend who loves sea-glass. I didn't hear back, but that's because she was out of the area for the day. Anyway, I went back up to my car and started the engine to leave. Then I thought to myself, "Gee, if I found the marble that fast, maybe there's other glass around." So I went down to the rock pile and looked for a few minutes, finding nothing. I then walked about 50' down the beach, and in the sand was a little round glowing form that looked like glass. It was!

The piece is about 15mm at the widest point, and has just the slightest blue cast to the color.

While the surface would indicate that it hasn't been in the ocean as long as the marble, it's still a very nice piece of glass. The shape reminds me of those beading-water shaped glass pieces that people put in clear vases, etc., just to add color to a room. I'm pretty sure that this is what it is.

May all of your hunts end in great finds. Cheers.

(I always wanted to use the chiton shell in the image for something. It's like a mini-Mako chomping a marble.)

2. Rarity/Value of Beautiful Sea Glass Piece

March 9, 2017

My friend and I were walking on the beach the other day in So. Cal. She is into sea glass, and I'm just into anything at the beach.

At one point I looked down and saw a bright yellowish something behind a rock at the water's edge. I was hesitant to touch it, as it looked like it might be some sort of jelly something. I pressed on it, and felt it was hard, not jelly. I picked it up, and it felt like glass.

I was floored by the beautiful yellowish color and near perfect shape. Right away, even without reading up on it, I felt it was special, and that it must be a bottle-stopper of some sort. I presented it to my friend as a gift. She's pretty special too.

Later that night, my friend consulted her books, and felt it could be Vaseline glass. Once she explained what it was, I told her that I had a hand-held black light that we could check it with. The images below share what we saw.

This piece looks yellow, with a touch of green under sunlight florescent light. Under black-light it lights up amazingly.

We're interested in what the enthusiasts/experts have to say about this little gem of glass. Any input on the rarity, the likelihood of it being a bottle stopper, and some idea of desirability, value, real color description, etc. is greatly appreciated.


Many thanks. Happy collecting.

Brian W.

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